They've finally taken the Ho229 out of storage and started to restore it:
I hope to live long enough to see it when it's done.
Posted on 02/01/2016 5:55:12 PM PST by Libloather
Starship Enterprise will be restored to its 1967 glory: Smithsonian to rebuild 11ft model used in original Star Trek TV show
It has been 50 years since the original model of the Starship Enterprise made its final imaginary voyage.
Today, the 11ft-long model lies in pieces at the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia with a damaged secondary hull and nacelles.
Trekkies the world over have been urging model makers to save this iconic ship.
Now the Smithsonian says it will attempt to do just that, but restoring it to its appearance in 1967, during the filming of the episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles'.
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Actually, much of the very real technology you use on a daily basis today was inspired by Star Trek.
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And Star Trek was inspired by Forbidden Planet and other science fiction.
Good one, mustn’t forget those! Or the isolinear optical chip.
They've finally taken the Ho229 out of storage and started to restore it:
I hope to live long enough to see it when it's done.
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I suspect the Horten Brothers were familiar with Vincent Burnelli.
Overacting? You would do the very same thing after being hit by a phaser.
Well, they've got Archie Bunker's chair and Seinfeld's Puffy Shirt, so WTH's wrong with having the Enterprise there too?
You would be amazed at what the Smithsonian has. I once worked for an architectural firm in Baltimore that had a contract with the Smithsonian for space planning along with architectural design for some exhibits.
The space planning had mostly to do with the vast amounts of storage space the Smithsonian has, so many items of all sorts, scientific and historical and cultural, books, films, musical recordings, etc. and not on display but made available to researchers. The museums open to the public represents only a small part of the Smithsonian's real estate.
Somebody in acquisitions had good taste.
We also each got an Amazon Echo for Christmas and were marveling at how similar it was to the ‘speaking electronic computer’ on Star Trek!
OK. That one was my all-time favorite as a kid. I loved Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea even more than Star Trek.
He made Shatner's acting seem pale by comparison...
Decker's death scene is one of the great moments of television.
Scotty will be relieved! Hehe!
Yea, but they had 3.5 floppy disks. Or maybe they were flash memory disks.
William Windom was a bit of a nut case anyway. Not a difficult acting job for him.
They aren’t restoring the 229, they’re doing a sympathetic conservation/preservation to arrest deterioration. The aircraft (which was never finished) is too far gone to be restored, and even then it would still be very much hypothetical given it was still a work in progress when the war ended.
The only plane in the NASM shop that has a date (and a loose one at that) for being rolled out for display is the B-26 Flak Bait. They’re hoping for 2020, but are finding a lot more corrosion than expected. Flak Baits getting the conservation treatment as well - she still wears her original paint and carries what are believed to be the only original DDay stripes in existance.
Nerds.
This is the second big resto for the Enterprise model. It hung in one of the lower-level galleries (by the lunar lander) for years, was restored and then displayed in a glass case in the basement bookstore.
Air&Space Mag had a writeup on the first resto in their April\May 1992 edition (”This Old Starship”). The resto was really controversial because the Smithsonian decided to completely overweather the model, adding a desidedly green tint to it.
They could at least get it to the point where they put the wings back on it:
A lot of these old planes have so much material replaced during "restoration" that it's like buying a rustbucket car just to have a valid VIN and title, then replacing everything but the frame.
Thanks for the info. I hadn’t known that about the Enterprise restorations. I was never a big Trek fan, my oldest son is though. He’s 49.
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